I've been cutting my tack strips wrong for like a decade

I was helping a guy from the next town over on a big job in Springfield, and he watched me cut a strip with my linoleum knife. He just goes, 'You know a pair of tin snips will do that in one squeeze, right?' I felt so dumb. I've been sawing at these things, chipping the wood, sometimes even bending the nails out. I went and got a pair of Klein snips that afternoon. The next day I did a whole basement rec room and it was like butter. No more jagged edges, no more wasted time. How did I go this long without someone telling me? What other simple tricks am I probably missing out on?

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johnthompson3h ago

Wait, you were using a linoleum knife for that? That's honestly kind of impressive you made it work at all.

brookerobinson1h ago

Man, that's not even the worst way I've seen. One guy at our shop used to break them over his knee, like some kind of karate move. The snips trick is a total game changer though, makes you wonder what else we're doing the hard way.